I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

The Harvard Lampoon itself, which had a pretty stellar run in the '60s.